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At what price will all hell break loose....
Re: At what price will all hell break loose....
by PrairieMule » Fri 30 Dec 2005, 19:52:55
I think we should be asking the media when do they think TSHF. Sounds simple and idotic but stirring up panic is what they do the best.
If you give a man a fish you will have kept him from hunger for a day. If you teach a man to fish he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
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Re: At what price will all hell break loose....
by jupiter422 » Fri 30 Dec 2005, 20:36:45
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TommyJefferson', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AmericanEmpire', 'M')ost people are just working from paycheck to paycheck. ...its these people who are going to bring the whole damn thing down when they can't buy things
No riots. Just lots of complaining and finger pointing for many years.
Blockbuster DVD rental $4.95
Pack of Marlboro's $2.95
Star Wars tickets $8.95
DSL service $35/mo.
1 oz. low-grade marijuana $265
There is so much wasted & frivolous capacity in the US economy it will be a loooooooog time before appreciable numbers of Americans become
angrily destitute. Think 20 years. By then our economy will have
adapted to low power living.
I work with 1,000 very low income wage earners. A sizable number still have no problem finding funds to drive a hundred miles to blow their paycheck at the Indian casino. They laugh at the idea of bringing lunch to work. Instead they order fast food.
This will have to get a LOT worse before the masses really care.
Where do you live that cigarettes are that cheap, and low grade marijuana is so expensive????? I used to smoke cigs ,but quit When I quit they were almost 4.50 a pack of marlboro's.
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Re: At what price will all hell break loose....
by smiley » Fri 30 Dec 2005, 20:46:15
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he planet I live on is Earth. I live in the USA but have visited Europe a few times. I have observed in my visits to Europe that motorcycles and scooters represent a much larger percentage of personal vehicles there than they do in the USA
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You're right. And don't forget the bicycles.
I've been monitoring the parking spaces and bike racks at work. I estimate that of my company, with about 400 employees, about 150 come by car, 20 by motorbike/scooter, 80 by public transport and 150 by bicycle. These figures might shift a bit with the weather, but I think they are pretty representative for the situation here.
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Re: At what price will all hell break loose....
by TommyJefferson » Sat 31 Dec 2005, 15:18:50
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jupiter422', 'W')here do you live that cigarettes are that cheap, and low grade marijuana is so expensive?
Texas. The Chevron station always has Marlboro's for $2.95
On the marijuana price, that's what I hear people say. I haven't smoked marijuana in 20 years because it started making me super-paranoid and uncomfortable.
I heard good hydroponic MJ cost about $400/oz., while the stuff they grow in the forests around here costs about $250/oz. That's just hearsay on my part.
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